The Lecture will be co-chaired by Professor W. John Morgan, Chair of the UK National Commission for UNESCO and Professor Duncan Gallie, Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the British Academy.

UNESCO: Social Science in the Next Decade

The keynote MacTaggart Lecture will be given by the director general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, at what is a crucial time for the corporation.

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The new room will be named The Shirley Ann McCallum Lecture Room.

BBC: Shirley Lowthian

The Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson and Jon Kyl Lecture on National Security will be presented twice a year as a joint program of the Center for Security Policy and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Sudarshan will be giving the 2010 Dirac Medal lecture at ICTP in Italy.

UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building

The 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq will be marked by a lecture from Swedish politician and diplomat Hans Blix.

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One of Ireland's most important newspaper cartoon archives, the Shemus cartoons, will be brought to life at a lecture by historian and author Felix Larkin on Wednesday.

BBC: Artistic bombs..Irish history in cartoon form

As lecture content is moved online, instructors will be able to re-think the classroom experience.

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No matter how we argue in comfortable air conditioned lecture halls about global warming and climate change, we will still be able to fry eggs on the bleachers while teenagers eager to make the grade as college football players have two-a-day summer work outs.

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Dr Newman and his colleague, Dr Christina D Buesching, will be making a presentation about the role of volunteers within science at the Earth Institute's annual lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on Thursday evening.

BBC: Volunteers 'vital to science data collection'